Restoring your Shaker Heights' Home?

The Shaker Historical Society (SHS), 16740 South Park Blvd. in Shaker Heights, OH, invites you to attend our 2016 Annual Meeting on January 31, 2016 at 3pm. The topic of the meeting will be “Restoring Shaker Heights’ Homes: with assistance from the Cleveland Restoration Society” presented by Kathleen Crowther, President of the Cleveland Restoration Society.

Annual Meeting
January 31, 2016 at 3pm
FREE
RSVP 216-921-1201

Kathleen H. Crowther has been Executive Director/President of the Cleveland Restoration Society since 1987. The Cleveland Restoration Society is a regional preservation organization working to preserve Cleveland’s heritage through loans, technical assistance, education and advocacy. It has been under her leadership that assistance programs have developed and flourished.

During Ms. Crowther’s tenure, the Society has grown dramatically. In 2013, the organization received the highest honor in its field from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Society is focused on aligning historic preservation with local economic development goals. The Society’s Heritage Home Loan ProgramSM is a national model operating in over 40 communities. It has provided technical assistance to over 7,800 property owners with rehabilitation projects valued at $63 million and has financed an additional 1,200 projects through its loan program for $46 million.

Ms. Crowther has served in leadership capacities on the state and national levels, particularly in association with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is an appointed Advisor to the Trust from Ohio. She was selected by her peers as the first local director to chair the Trust’s Partners Program.

Kathleen is a Clevelander through and through, having grown up here, educated at Case Western Reserve University (BA cum laude, Art History & English) and Cleveland State University (MS, top honors, Urban Affairs). She did take a junior year abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris. She has been an Arts Fellow at Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.